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AUM and landscape - any hints if it will ever be?
On a whim I thought I'd load up AUM on the iPhone...seems the issue with the app mixer section going to landscape is still not enabled.
Anyone had any hints or "backroom" info if this will ever get done?
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The only hints I can find are that it's not planned. Ever. However, I did ask over on the AUM Discord. I'll let you know if I get any response. Also ping ... @j_liljedahl.
it's the main reason i don't use AUM tbh
Thx wim
yeah ditto...
I just checked, and it turns out I’ve been using AUM for about five years now. There have been a lot of quality of life and feature updates in that time (you can read the version history on the App store), but the main UI is essentially unchanged from when I started using it. Honestly I think it’s part of why it’s so quick and easy for so many people. The UI is basically “finished” and it doesn’t change over time in terms of the location and scale of visual elements. It’s not super comfortable on iPhone for me too, and there have been times I’ve wanted a denser mixer view on iPad as well, or collapsing channel stacks or what have you. I’m not holding my breath though 😀
not asking for the UI to be changed, just allow it in landscape on iPhone! plugins do, but the actual mixing window does not!
It would be great to have landscape.
And groups! Being able go group bus stripes somehow together, maybe smaller closer strips to get more per screen. I personally don’t need the slider to be that long. (That’s what she said)
Love aum but would looove landscape and a more compressed work environment
It looks like @wim has submitted this as a feature request for you on the AUM Discord https://discord.gg/y78nQq55
[Edit: I see he already posted above 👍]
I think the channel strips would have to be redesigned to fit in that small of a vertical space, or be scaled down to the point of usability challenges.
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Not exactly. I didn't make a feature request, just asked if there are any plans for it.
I'm sure @j_liljedahl has gotten many requests for this already. Any lobbying will need to be done by others. 😉
I've just gotten used to working sideways the few times I use AUM on the phone. I hardly think about it any more. I find Loopy Pro and Drambo to be more workable as hosts on the phone anyway.
Still find it difficult to get around Loopy...have not yet tried Drambo
Landscape AUM on the iPhone? The answer is simple: nothing will be visible with the current UI design. So, what’s the point?
I kinda agree @Luxthor it feels it would be quite unusable on an iPhone screen in landscape
It could be done, but seems like it would really require a total redesign of the UI to be very workable.
(btw, there's been no response so far to my question on the AUM Discord.)
on the iphone 15 pro or max it would be workable! It is after all just a mixing screen and other apps can do so! I mean, if the actual AUv3 can rotate I really cannot understand why the hosting app cannot also??
What is the developer to do about the complaints of all the people who have smaller phones, which I would guess is the vast majority?
UI's aren't always as flexible as you might think if you've never done app development. More often than not UI's are not vector based and easily resizable. Plugin windows are a different matter. A plugin window is designed to be resizable, and all the developer has to worry about is sizing the window. Each plugin has to handle its own UI adaptation to size changes (some better than others).
iPads have fewer and less extreme variations in size, resolution, and aspect ratio than iPhones. It's kind of a can of worms to open to support them all.
I think if was as straightforward a thing to do as you think, I'm pretty sure that it would have been done already.
yep, in THIS app only. As pointed out, by you iirc, is that Loopy Pro and Drambo can do it!
Here is the AUM landscape on the iPhone Max Pro 15. Enjoy your suffering, haha.
Those came along a long time after AUM and had the benefit of time and perspective to get started on the right foot. Sometimes developers get painted into a corner by decisions made early on. Tearing things apart to work differently can be more work than it’s worth in some cases. I’m not saying I know that to be the case for AUM, only that it may be a likely explanation.
But I’m not here to convince you of anything. There’s surely a reason it hasn’t been done. However, me offering possible explanations is fruitless and isn’t what you want to hear anyway. If you think it should be easier and more attractive to the developer to do than it has been to-date, that’s cool. 👍✌️
I would be 100% cool with that!
One release of AUM from a couple of years ago (iOS 12 or 13) was able to go into landscape on my iPhone SE. I have no doubt that it was made possible by an iOS beta rather than being planned.
I can attest to the fact that it was unusable in landscape and I abandoned AUM entirely until the bug had disappeared again.
Some things shouldn’t be wished for.
Other apps doing it doesn’t mean that it was a small amount of work or that the work proved to be a good return on investment.
Since Jonatan is a pretty bright guy, knows how much the app earns and knows how much work would be involved (unlike any of us), I think it is safe to say that it wouldn’t be a trivial amount of work even if ne can quickly photoshop a mock-up.